# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/serge-danot
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:51:40.083Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/serge-danot"
name: "Serge Danot"
slug: "serge-danot"
description: "Serge Danot was a French animator and former advertising executive. He is best known for creating the animated series, Le Manège enchanté in 1964, which became known in its 1965 English-language version, written and narrated by actor Eric Thompson for the BBC as The Magic Roundabout."
tagline: "French animator (1931-1990)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cimeti%C3%A8re_La_Bouteillerie_-_Nantes_Serge_Danot_photo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1931-09-17"
deathDate: "1990-12-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.19
  momentum:             13.08510638297872
  historical:           6.152953333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0200484/"
    handle:    "nm0200484"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/fe7617d7-b8ab-4792-8286-f9c605e3b2b3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "سيرج دانوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "سيرج دانوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Danot"
    title: "Serge Danot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%B1%DA%98_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88"
    title: "سرژ دانو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Danot"
    title: "Serge Danot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3479266"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/80539"
    title: "Serge Danot"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump